Recent changes to bugs

dns.monitor: defined(@array) is deprecated

Dario Minnucci — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 03:06:26 -0000

Hi Trockij,

I've got this bug via Debian BTS [0] and I post it here as usual.

Attached you will find the patch applied in Debian.

Regards,

When I use dns.monitor, I've got Perl problem when calling normally or
simple with "--help" argument :

/usr/lib/mon/mon.d/dns.monitor 127.0.0.1

defined(@array) is deprecated at /usr/lib/mon/mon.d/dnscustom.monitor
line 171.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(@array) is deprecated at /usr/lib/mon/mon.d/dnscustom.monitor
line 176.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(@array) is deprecated at /usr/lib/mon/mon.d/dnscustom.monitor
line 182.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)

The defined function in recent perl is deprecated and genere a mon alerte.
See this great information at :
http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2012/02/on-definedarray-and-definedhash.html

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731737

#116 mon.cgi doesn't allow logins

Paul M — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:32:56 -0000

I just use authentication in apache

#100 Mangled output on descritption and detail

Paul M — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:30:54 -0000

I worked out how to fix this. in /usr/share/perl5/Mon/Client.pm at line 1932, change this:
quotewords ('\s+', 0, $o)

to
quotewords ('\s+', 1, $o)

It took me about an hour and a half to find this, and minutes to fix.

The mon daemon stores strings in its status "database" file ( /var/lib/mon/opstatus ) file after escaping all ascii codes 20 (space) and below, as it uses whitespace to separate fields. e.g. spaces are stored as \20.

The mon daemon listens on tcp:2583 and is queried by the mon.cgi via
the library file /usr/share/perl5/Mon/Client.pm for status, a simple ascii query and response.

The Client.pm library reads the response, and used the perl function quotewords to split the output read from the mon daemon into separate name=value pairs.

Unfortunately it set the second parameter to 0, which caused quotewords to strip off the backslash character. This meant that the \20 representation of the space character was turned into simply 20, and thus the un-escaping function didn't turn it back into a space.

It might be that the "keep" parameter in quotewords changed its function during one of the many perl releases since mon was written 12.5 years ago and abandoned. Or that someone fixed it locally and never submitted the patch and noone really cared because mon is abandonware?

mon.cgi doesn't allow logins

Dario Minnucci — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:07:11 -0000

Hi,

This issue was reported via Debian BTS [0].
Item (1) is Debian specific, but it seems is not working even using Crypt::TripleDES from CPAN

Several issues with mon.cgi:

1) Requires Crypt::TripleDES to work, but libcrypt-tripledes-perl seems
to have been removed from Debian sometime since 2004.
2) If Crypt::TripleDES is install via CPAN, the following happens:

malformed header from script. Bad header=<form method="post" action="/c: mon.cgi

Some how the population of the $url variable is damaged. I haven't dug
into this further, but I will try and do so. The CGI front-end seems to
be a nice balance of light interface and functionality, so it would be
nice if the one we shipped would allow login access.

Regards,

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695711

Overly similar alert emails

Dario Minnucci — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:02:05 -0000

Hi,

This came to me via Debian BTS [0], please consider this case:

UP and DOWN alert emails differ only by a prepended "UP" to the
subject line of the former. This means if you're reading using
a mail client, such as K-9 Mail for Google Android, which auto-
scrolls past the headers, you cannot differentiate easily between
a failure renotification and a recovery. I've applied the following
patch:

--- mail.alert.orig 2013-01-03 13:58:46.000000000 -0500
+++ mail.alert 2013-01-03 13:50:05.000000000 -0500
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@
Secs until next alert : $opt_l
EOF

+print MAIL "Service Status : ", ($opt_u ? "UP" : "DOWN"), "\n";
+
print MAIL wrap ("", "\t\t\t", "Members : $opt_h"), "\n";

print MAIL <<EOF;

This includes a server status line in the message body, in a natural
location.

Regards,

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697302

Canonicalize to extension .conf (now .cf)

Dario Minnucci — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:30:11 -0000

Please consider migrating to extension

*.conf

in place of:

*.cf

Like in samba, apache etc.

imap.monitor uses hardcoded user/pass, SSL unsupported

Dario Minnucci — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:58:16 -0000

Hi Jim,

This is a forward of a bug report received in Debian BTS#664016 [0]

mon: imap.monitor uses hardcoded username/password, LOGIN auth, does not support SSL.

Please, let me know if you agree to solve these issue via attached patches.

Regards,

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664016

report.monitor ignores command-line options

Dario Minnucci — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:33:34 -0000

Hi Jim,

This issue was reported on Debian Bug Tracker [0].

I'll implement the attached patch on the Debian package as soon as you validate it.

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659152

[PATCH] doc/mon.8 (1.8 2011-06-20) order alphabetically

Jari Aalto — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:55:41 -0000

The following patches arrange the manual page entries in alphabetical
order. This helps reading the options and definitions when consulting
the meaning quickly.

The patch is agianst latest CVS, 1.8 of doc/mon.8

Please, add 'mon-contrib' to the category list

Dario Minnucci — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:24:29 -0000

Hi,

As you know, I'm working on mon-contrib Debian pacakage to be complementary of 'mon' package.

I've found some issues and so I'm asking for the creation of a 'mon-contrib' entry in the category pulldown to be able to report issues related to 'mon-contrib' more especifically.

Regards

Recent changes to bugs

dns.monitor: defined(@array) is deprecated

/usr/lib/mon/mon.d/dns.monitor 127.0.0.1

#116 mon.cgi doesn't allow logins

#100 Mangled output on descritption and detail

mon.cgi doesn't allow logins

Overly similar alert emails

Canonicalize to extension *.conf (now *.cf)

imap.monitor uses hardcoded user/pass, SSL unsupported

report.monitor ignores command-line options

[PATCH] doc/mon.8 (1.8 2011-06-20) order alphabetically

Please, add 'mon-contrib' to the category list

Canonicalize to extension .conf (now .cf)